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(No Model.)

G. KOBIGH. PICTURE EXHIBITOR.

No. 416,295. Patented Dec. 3. 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORG KOBIOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE-EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,295, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed February 13, 1389. Serial No. 299,796. (No model.)

To all 1070,0122, it may concern.-

Be it'known' that I, GEORG KOBICH, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picture-Exhibitors, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to improvements in that class of picture-exhibitors in which a series of pictures are singly brought to a position of view and then carried to the end of the series. I I

The invention consists of a continuous track or guide-frame adaptedto support movable" frames containing the pictures, shifting mechanism for bringing the pictures, one by one, to the position of view and returning themto the rearward of the unexposed pictures, and a spring-lock by which the pictures are held after the shifting mechanism has carried them to the rearward position, and by which they are forced forward to position of view as the shifter engages a picture and carries it from such position.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a section of the inclosing-case, with the part E in section,'this part E being a partition dividing the inclosing-case into two chambers, one including the pictures and one the shifting mechanism, and serving as apart of the continuous picture-guide. Fig. 2 is a detail edge view of this partition in central vertical section. Fig. 3 is an elevation view of the same assectioned in Fig. 2. Figs. t and 5 are different forms of inclosing-cases.

Referring to these views in detail, E is the partition dividing the exterior or inclosing case into two parts, the pictures P being on one side thereof and the mechanism for shifting them being on the other side. The central part of this partition is cut away into the general form of a square having a rounded top, which is the outline of the picture track or guide. \Vithin this opening is the plate g, which is held in position by the bridge 13, fastened to its lower end and also to the partition E. This plate is somewhat smaller than the opening in the partition, but of the same shape, and it is supported so as to be at equal distance from the edge of the partition on all sides, thereby leaving between it and the partition a continuous guide-slot R g.

F represents the frames for supporting the photographs or other pictures, there usually being two pictures in one frame, arranged with their backs together and with the top of one to the bottom of the other. Each frame is supported in the guide R g by a carrierblock H, which is slotted at one end 0 to receive the frame F, to which it is pinned, and which is necked at N to correspond to the middle of the guide-slot and the thickness 0 the partition E.

G and G are two guide-strips secured to the plate g and partition E near the guideslot and a distance apart corresponding to the thickness of the carrier-blocks H, and these strips are to support the blocks laterally and to cause them and the pictures attached to them to be turned on their axes as they are carried around the guide-slot. The guide-strip G is not continued along the horizontal part R of the guide-slot, as there the bridge B serves to guide the carrier-blocks, while the guide-strip Gis continuous around this bridge at the same distance from it that it is from the strip G, to permit the shifting device to pass around the bridge after it has delivered a picture to the right-hand end, Fig. 3, of the horizontal portion of the guideslot.

s is a spring secured in the parts of the guide-slot and around the right-hand corner of the same, or at the beginning of the portion R thereof. Its purpose is to press against the necks of' the carrier-blocks as they are brought upon it, and, being compressed by the shifting mechanism, as the shifter-arm passes by the carrier-blocks and leaves them in the part R of the guide-slot, this spring.

passes them forward along such part of the guide and holds them pressed together, so that the picture being in view will be in an upright position.

In Fig. 3 the guide R is shown as but partially filled with carrier-blocks; but when the exhibitor is in operation this guide will be filled with such blocks, so that the spring 5 will at all times be pressing the pictures forward, and this is necessary that as a picture is removed from the position of view another will be at once pressed forward and brought into sight. It will of course be understood that the observer is directly in front of ICO the pictures, as seen in Fig. 1, and that the case has a suitable opening or other means by which the forward picture can be seen.

A is a hinge-piece in the block g, through which the carrier-blocks 11121) be removed from the guide.

K is a knob orother similardevice capable of being readily turned by the hand of the observer. It is supported in the exterior case on a shaft which within the case carries an arm 0, to which is pivoted a driverarm, which has a pin 1) at its outer end that is arranged to project into the space between the guide-strips G G, and this pin 1) is of such size that it cannot pass the carrierblocks H. When a picture is being exposed to view, the position of these parts is substantially as shown in Fig. 3.

The operation is as follows: Turning the knob of the shifting mechanism causes the pin of the carrier-arm to come in contact with the carrier-block of the picture then in view, and the picture is lifted from sight along the left-hand vertical part of the guide-slot. As soon as this carrier-block has been lifted above its neighbors another picture is pressed to position of view by the spring at the other end of the lower horizontal part of the guide. Continuing, the turning of the knob causes the driver-arm to force the disappearing picture around the curved part of the guide until its block presses down the spring at the beginning of the horizontal part of the guide, and here the carrier-block is pressed under the bridge and the driver-pin passes the block and continues around the bridge to its first position. The picture-frame thus carried around has in its passage been turned on its axis, so that its back picture is now to the front and reversed, so as to be properly seen when it shall again come to the front of the series of pictures.

It is obvious that this mechanism may be adapted to pictures of various sizes and styles, and to exhibiting them in other positions than a vertical plane and in connection with other mechanism.

In Fig. 5 I show a perspective view of a cabinet-case adapted to contain my exhibiting mechanism, and in Fig. at I illustrate in a general way the mechanism contained in a clock-case and located so that the pictures appear before a reflecting mirror or glass. The mechanism of these figures, howeyer, is

| the same as that of the other figures, but dif- Y ferently positioned in the containing case.

hat is claimed as new is 1. In a picture-exhibitor, in combination with the inclosing-case, the partition -E, centrally cut away to form one side of the guide R g, the plate g,supported in the opening of said partition by the bridge 1:) and forming the other side of said guide, the series of pictures P, each supported in said guide by carrier-blocks II, and knob K, operating the driver-pin 1), adapted to engage said blocks H, whereby the forward picture of the series is shifted from the position of View and carried to the rear of the series, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a picture-exhibitor, the combination, with the inclosing-case, of the supportingpartition E, centrally cut away to form one side of the guide R g and provided with a guide-strip G, the plate g, supported in the opening of said partition by the bridge B and forming the other side of said guide and having guide-strip G, a series of pictures P, each supported in said strips by carrier-blocks II, shaped to loosely fit between the said guide strips, and the knob K, operating the driverpin 1), whereby the forward picture of the series is shifted from the position of view and carried to the rearof the series, and while being carried to the rear of the series is reversed, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a picture-exhibitor, the combination, with the exterior case, of the supporting-partition E, cut away to form one side of the guide R g and provided with the guide-strip G, with the plate g, supported in the opening in said partition by bridge B and forming the other side of said guide and having the guide-strip G, the series of pictures P, supported in said guide by carrier-blocks H, the springs, for forcing the pictures to the position of view, and the knob K, carrying the driver-pin 1), whereby the pictures are successively shifted from the position of View and carried to the rear of the series, and while being carried to the rear of the series are reversed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORG KOBICH.

Witnesses: r ALFRED CASTELLAN, i OSCAR I l. PERLES. 

